wildcard statement?

[Graham_Calhoun]

I have 6 buttons controlling 6 identically sized  text boxes contained in a single subform.

If the user clicks on button 1, textbox 1 is unhidden. If button 2 is clicked, textbox 2 is unhidden and textbox 1 is hidden etc etc.

I'm presently using an "if else" statement to hide and unhide textboxes like this:

if (button.rawValue == "1")
    {
    TextField1.presence = "visible";
    }
else
    {
    TextField1.presence = "hidden";
    TextField2.presence = "hidden";
    TextField3.presence = "hidden";
    TextField4.presence = "hidden";
    TextField5.presence = "hidden";
    TextField6.presence = "hidden";
    }

What I'm wondering is if there is some way of saying

if (button.rawValue == "1"), all other items in this subform are hidden

Is that possible with JS?

Graham

[Former Community Member]

Just hide the subform .....subformName.presence = "invisible"

Paul

[Graham_Calhoun]

Paul,

But I am trying to always show one of the 6 textboxes inside the subform.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if there's some way to cut down on the lines of code, or am I always going to have to say something to the effect of

"if line one is visible,

then hide line 2

hide line 3

hide line 4

hide line 5

hide line 6"

I'd like to say

"if line one is visible,

then hide all else"

That would be a lot less code to write.

Graham

[_Bruce_Robertson · Accepted solution]

Hi Graham

If you are willing to change your text fields so they have the same name there are then a number of ways you can refer to them as a group, so if your subform containing the buttons and text fields was called SubForm and the text fields were all called TextField then then "SubForm.TextField.all" will return a list of all the text fields.

Then if you have a function like;

function set(subForm, index)
{
var textFields = subForm.TextField.all;
for (i = 0; i < textFields.length; i++)
{
  if (textFields.item(i).index == index)
  {
   textFields.item(i).presence = "visible";
  }
  else
  {
   textFields.item(i).presence = "invisible";
  }
}
}

And in each button click call the function with;

set(SubForm, this.index);

The function will make visible the text field that has the same index as the button that was clicked.

Bruce

[Jono_Moore]

Nice bit of code Bruce.

I was giving this problem some thought, and figured something could be done with a loop  but my javascript-fu still needs some work.